Many years ago I drove through part of the American desert: Death Valley in California, then Arizona, New Mexico and parts of Texas. Joshua Erkman's first feature is called "A Desert" and the "A" signals that it isn't about "the" desert, but "a" desert of the mind. It opens Friday, May 9 at the Roxy Cinema in Manhattan. Go here for show times and...

"Invention," an indie film combining real footage and fictional narrative to create a unique, mysterious and lightly comical meta-portrait of a woman's grief over her dead father, plays for one week at Metrograph In Theater beginning this Friday, April 18. Go here for showtimes and ticket information. Callie Hernandez stars as "Carrie Fernandez" (some characters erroneously refer to her by her real name, one of...